Michael Martin

Grigory Rodchenkov is the former director of the Russian national anti-doping lab, the Anti-Doping Center, and one of the most infamous whistleblowers in history. In 2015, he revealed Russia's system for distributing illegal performance-enhancing substances to its athletes and covering up dirty...

FCC chairman Ajit Pai, a Trump appointee, is being investigated by the FCC inspector general for possible collusion with Sinclair Broadcasting, a conservative media group that ran pro-Trump programming during the election.
Shortly after taking office in February, Pai announced he would overturn...

A former Playboy Playmate has detailed her 2006 affair with Donald Trump, despite a Trump friend's attempt to buy her silence, a new report alleges.
Karen McDougal detailed her alleged affair with Trump in an eight-page document reported on by the New Yorker on Friday. McDougal wrote that she...

President Trump's approval rating is lower than it was one year ago in 49 states. But not in Alabama, where it has improved by 1 point.
According to a new Morning Consult poll, 63% of Alabama residents approve of the job Trump is doing, up from 62% in January 2017.
But in every other state,...

Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, who has made headlines for helping the U.S. team to a bronze medal in Pyeongchang and criticizing Vice President Mike Pence for his anti-LGBT record, has spoken up about eating disorders in men's skating, revealing that at one point his daily diet consisted of...

President Trump recently unveiled a $1.4 trillion infrastructure plan and a $4 trillion budget proposal that includes initiatives such as defunding PBS and cutting fresh produce from the food-stamp program. But none of those are his biggest priority for 2018.
What is? Twitter. Specifically, "...

President Trump's 2019 budget request would prevent food-stamp recipients from using the program to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables, requiring them to receive a box of processed foods instead.
White House Office of Management & Budget head Mick Mulvaney called the proposal a "...

In the fast-paced world of TV news, typos happen.
Generally not like this one.
On Saturday morning, a Chicago TV station was airing a story on the political climate surrounding the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They created a snazzy graphic for the piece, which displayed...

A smoking-gun Trump tape may have dropped last week.
Around Feb. 5, viral video circulated of Trump's hair blowing forward as he ascended the stairs to Air Force One. It appeared to drift off the back of his head in one piece, which was the subject of much Twitter amusement as rumors...

One of President Trump's visions for the American space program is to turn the International Space Station into a kind of strip mall, with various private companies taking over pieces of the station and its functions as the federal government defunds it within seven years.
Quartz reports that...

Apparently attempting to wrest the viral-Olympic-story award away from "110,000 condoms in Olympic village," North Korea has let it be known that the country has a cheerleading squad. The fact that North Korean cheerleaders exist may not be surprising — after all, the entire country...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has a solution for opioid addiction: Just take a couple of aspirin and go to sleep instead.
Sessions made the suggestion Tuesday night at a Heritage Foundation event celebrating the birthday of Ronald Reagan. The attorney general observed that Nancy Reagan's...

President Trump's views and proposed policies on immigration are well out of step with American voters, says a new poll, which found that an overwhelming majority of Americans want Dreamers to stay in the U.S., and a solid majority oppose Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico.
The...

Pyeongchang — didn't that used to be called Pyongyang? If you've asked yourself that question, you're not alone. To get it out of the way: the answer to the question is PyeongChang in North Korea is hell no. Although they're only three letters apart, Pyeongchang and Pyongyang...

A new poll shows that 53 percent of American voters believe that President Trump has tried to "derail or obstruct" special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential links between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
In the Quinnipiac poll...

Proponents of legalizing marijuana say it will open up new small-business opportunities for the middle class. A Girl Scout in California metaphorically said, "Hold my beer."
Last weekend, an enterprising San Diego troop member set up shop outside Urbn Leaf, a legal pot dispensary. Her...

Well, this is awkward.
Increasingly visible White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah called Donald Trump "a deplorable" and said that the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape was "some justice," New York magazine reported Monday.
During the 2016 presidential...

The White House was left searching for some ice for that burn yesterday, after the U.S. Office of Government Ethics took a thinly veiled swat at President Trump.
In a blog post, the acting director of the agency commented on a recent survey that shows a rising number of Americans believe the...

During a speech in Cincinnati on Monday afternoon, President Trump called Democrats who didn't applaud during his State of the Union address "un-American" and "treasonous."
Trump said that Republicans "were going crazy wild" during his speech, but Democrats were...

Denting President Trump's complaints that the FBI is biased against him, the "Wall Street Journal" read 7,000 text messages between FBI agent Peter Sztrok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page and found no evidence of a conspiracy against Trump.
Some Republicans had used Strzok's text...